Questioner: What is the purpose of human life?
Acharya Prashant: See, we ask this question assuming that there is a purpose.
We ask this question assuming just as everything about us is purposeful so life must also be purposeful. Is there any validity to that assumption?
Purpose means a finality; it means an end. But if we begin right from where we are, then we always feel a purpose, don’t we?
Because we feel a purpose, so we want to know what is the right purpose. Correct?
That is our situation.
None of us is ever without a purpose, we may be confused about the purpose — and that is another matter — but a purpose or bag of purpose is always present. The challenge then is not knowing about whether there must be a purpose, the challenge we face is determining the right purpose from many that we imagine.
What about freedom from this confusion?
